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Arlington Pumping Station
The Arlington Pumping Station, built in 1907, is a historic water pumping station on Brattle Court (off Brattle Street) in Arlington, Massachusetts. Its purpose was to provide water to Lexington and higher elevations in Arlington. The station was put in service on December 4, 1907.
==Design==
The station was designed by CA Dodge & Co, with construction beginning August 23, 1906. It is a brick building long by wide, about from the ground to the cornice. The foundation walls are of Portland cement concrete, faced, where exposed on the outside below the water-table course, with seam-faced granite. Exterior walls are of dark-red faced brick, with Longmeadow brownstone trimmings, and are surmounted by a hip roof supported by steel trusses and covered with slate. The steps at the main entrance, the water-table course and the trimmings below the water-table are of pink Milford granite.
The building is subdivided by a division wall forming an engine room long by wide and high, and a boiler room long by wide and high. The interior facing of the engine and boiler room walls is of red brick. The engine room floor is of red quarry tile. The floors in the basement of the engine room and in the boiler and coal houses are granolithic. In the rear of the boiler room there is an underground coal pocket long by wide by high, covered by a reinforced concrete roof over which the side track is carried. In this roof there are 16 openings through which coal may be unloaded from the cars. The brick chimney is in the rear of the building. It is high and in diameter at the base, diminishing to in diameter at a point below the top. The flue is 2 feet 6 inches in diameter. The main entrance is on the front of the building. The vestibule is by , and on either side of it are the office and toilet room, both by , the three forming a projection from the main building by .
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